ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT YANKHO KAWALEWALE, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
University of Malawi | Lilongwe, Malawi | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 6 & UNAI 9
" Determination, want for social change and zeal for social and environmental justice
animate me and it is my belief that this fellowship will equip me with the necessary
skills and knowledge to enable me to bring about social chang "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Community Waste Management Initiative in Zomba
Community Waste Management Initiative at the University of Malawi and some areas in Zomba community:
As part of our cohort's community development project, we embarked on the Community Waste Management Initiative, aimed at addressing the pressing issues of broken sewage pipes and plastic disposal in our community, specifically within the University of Malawi and surrounding areas in Zomba.So, our objective was to create a cleaner, healthier, and sustainable environment by mitigating the dangers and risks associated with these problems.The community faced significant challenges due to broken sewage pipes contaminating water sources, posing health risks to residents, and improper plastic disposal choking drainage systems, harming wildlife, and polluting the environment.
About the Millennium Fellow
Yankho Kawalewale is a hardworking young from a small landlocked country in
southeastern Africa Called Malawi. He is a fourth-year law student at the University of
Malawi with a passion for environmental justice. For as long as he could remember, he
always had an interest in the state of waste management systems in Malawi and how
inadequate they were. Although not having been able to successfully organisation or
implement a social impact project as of date, he aspires to change this by successfully
implementing a social impact project in the form of reconstructing the waste
management system of Zomba City in the Eastern Region of Malawi.
